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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 55507

USS Covington
(ID # 1409)

Sinking off Brest, France, in July 1918. She had been torpedoed on 1 July by German submarine U-86 and sank the following day.
This photograph may have been taken in the late stages of abandonment, as a lifeboat is alongside by the aftermost survivor disembarkation ladder, with a few men visible above.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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5 November 2003